• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.54-64
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• 2018

This study aims to understand the information needs of Korean immigrant mothers in the United States for their high school children's college preparation. A content analysis was conducted for the messages posted to a "motherhood" forum on the MissyUSA website. In total, 754 posts were analyzed in terms of a child's grade, college preparation stage, type of post, and topic of post. The study found that there is a range of information needed at different stages in a child's education. Many of the demonstrated information needs showed similarities to those of other immigrant groups, but there were also community-specific themes, such as an emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and standardized tests. The forum was mainly used for factual questions, not emotional support. We concluded that the findings of the study would help researchers in understanding immigrant information needs for the college application process and how information professionals and educators could combine the needs of different ethnic groups to create customized services for them.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.13-26
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• 1999

The purpose of this research is to find out consumer attitudes toward and needs for housing information sources and contents so as to facilitate the development and utilizing the information. The stratified sampling method was used to select 1,300 households in six large cities plus Seoul area during September 10th to 30th, 1997. The resets showed that Newspaper was the main source of housing information and about an half of respondents experienced housing consultation were somewhat dissatisfied with their consultants, mostly realtors. The younger and the more highly educated with higher income residents of apartments in Seoul area had the higher needs for housing information. Experience itself used housing information source had position influence on housing needs. The various housing information may increase the chance to use the information of those had never used it as well as to meet the needs for housing information of those had used.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.19-38
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• 2024

This study investigated the information needs of prisoners and the adequacy of information resources in prison libraries in Anambra State, Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study. The population of the study was 1781 inmates in prisons in Anambra State. The sample size of 327 was selected using Taro Yamane's formula and proportionate stratified sampling techniques. Two instruments titled the Information Needs of Prisoners Questionnaire and the Adequacy of Information Resources Checklist were used for data collection. The instruments were validated by three experienced lecturers. One in the department of Educational Foundations (Measurement and Evaluation Unit) and two in the Department of Library and Information Science, all at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Cronbach's alpha was used to determine the internal consistency of the questionnaire items, with a value of 0.79. The researchers administered the questionnaires with the help of four research assistants (correctional officers). Out of 327 questionnaires administered, 314 were successfully retrieved. The percentage return rate of distributed questionnaires is 96%. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics of the mean; also, the International Federation of Library Association (IFLA) guideline for library services to prisoners was also used as a yardstick for the measurement of adequacy. The results from the data analysis indicated that prisoners have diverse information needs that, when met, would help them during their stay in prison as well as when they are eventually released; these needs include legal information, information on prison rules, financial information, and others. While there were few information resources found to be adequate, the inadequacy of most of the listed information resources is recorded in prison libraries in Anambra State, Nigeria. It is therefore recommended that information resources be made adequately available for prisoners in relation to their information needs.

• 정보관리학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.305-336
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• 2021

본 연구는 대학도서관의 서비스 개발을 위해 대학을 둘러싼 환경에 대한 인식에 기반하여 이용자가 가진 정보요구와 정보행위를 탐색하였다. 질적 데이터의 내용분석 결과, 심층면담 참여자들은 사회, 교육, 연구 환경의 변화를 경험하면서, '적합성, 최신성, 고유성, 신뢰성, 현장성, 편의성'의 6가지 특성을 띠는 심층적 정보요구를 갖고 있었다. 참여자들은 정보요구를 해결하기 위해 정보매체와 인적자원, 그리고 장소매체를 활용하고 있었다. 이러한 정보행위를 수행하는 가운데, 참여자들의 신분이나 주제분야, 소속대학을 뛰어넘어 공통적으로 겪고 있는 정보문제로서 '개개인의 미디어·정보활용역량 차이, 대학간 자원인프라 격차, 저작권과 소통채널의 문제' 등을 발견하였다. 이에 본 연구는 대학도서관서비스 방향성으로 '개인화된 미디어·정보리터러시 서비스, 정보요구 특성에 부합하는 장소매체로서의 도서관, 인적교류장소로서 자원인프라플랫폼, 접근성 높은 정보매체 활용지원 서비스'를 제시하였다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.241-248
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• 2018

Recently, there have been calls for approaching from the irrationality point of view to better explain the privacy paradox phenomenon. This study is a kind of response to them. The aim of the study is to investigate how satisfying competence needs, one of basic psychological needs suggested in self-determination theory, affects irrational information disclosure decision (i.e., risk-benefit assessment). To do this, the study builds an irrationality-based model in which competence needs satisfaction affects both perceived risks negatively and perceived benefits (i.e., relationship building and maintenance), which in turn determine a level of self-disclosure. Based on the data from Facebook users which is collected by a large sample survey (N=1050), the study analyzes it using Mplus, a powerful structure equation modeling tool. The study results reveal that while the relationship between competence needs satisfaction and perceived relationship building and maintenance is statistically significant, the relationship between competence needs satisfaction and perceived risks insignificant. These findings imply that people who is in a high level of competence needs satisfaction is more likely to respond to some opportunities for social benefits and in turn disclose more information about self.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.121-149
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• 2006

최근 우리사회에 급증하고 있는 북한이탈주민들이 성공적으로 정착하지 못하고 부적응 현상을 보이고 있는 현실에서, 이 연구는 북한이탈주민들이 봉착해 있는 적응과 정착의 문제를 "정보"의 관점으로 접근해 보고자 하였다. 이 연구에 의하면 북한이탈주민들은 남한사회의 정착을 위해 다양한 정보요구를 가지고 있었는데, 그 중에서 취업/사업에 대한 정보요구가 가장 높았으며, 이어서 복지혜택. 건강/안전, 육아/교육, 북한소식, 언어/억양 등의 순으로 정보요구가 높은 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 안타깝게도 이러한 정보요구를 충족하기 위한 방법에서는 많은 한계가 존재하고 있었다. 그들은 남한사회 정착에 필수적인 정보를 입수하기 위해 공식적인 기관이나 단체를 활용하기보다는 자신과 같은 처지에 있는 북한이탈주민 가족, 친구, 이웃을 통해 폐쇄적으로 정보를 입수하는 경향을 보이고 있었다. 그리고 TV와 신문, 인터넷 등 대중매체 정보원을 적극적으로 활용하려는 모습은 나타났으나 현재 그들의 정보환경이 상대적으로 열악한 상태에 있어 필요한 정보를 제대로 입수하여 삶의 문제 해결에 활용하는데 어려움을 겪고 있었다.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.251-270
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• 2012

일상생활에서 멀티미디어 검색은 중요한 검색활동이며, 멀티미디어 정보요구와 검색행태는 그 특성상 텍스트 기반의 정보요구와 검색행태와는 달리 고유한 특성을 지닌다. 본 연구는 서울시내 남녀 대학생 20명의 멀티미디어 정보요구와 검색행태에 관하여 탐색적 고찰을 제시하였다. 대학생의 멀티미디어 정보요구와 이에 따른 검색과정이 녹화 및 녹취되었으며, 사후심층면담도 함께 이루어졌다. 이러한 데이터의 분석결과는 멀티미디어 검색원, 정보요구, 적합성 판단 근거, 검색저해요인으로 구분하여 제시되었다. 검색원의 특징으로는 국내포털사이트와 구글이 주로 사용되었으나, 이미지, 오디오, 비디오의 개별 멀티미디어의 특성을 반영한 검색원이 규명되었다. 멀티미디어 정보요구는 특정한 정보요구가 보편적인 정보요구에 비해 많이 추구되었으나 개별 멀티미디어의 특성에 따라 보편적 정보요구의 비중은 다르게 나타났다. 멀티미디어 적합성 판단 기준과 검색저해요인은 개별 멀티미디어에 따라 상당히 다양하게 발견되었다. 이러한 결과는 기존의 통합적 멀티미디어의 검색 환경에서 개별 멀티미디어 정보요구와 특성이 반영된 검색환경 구현이 필요하다는 것을 보여준다.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회 1998년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.19-22
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• 1998

ISP(Information Strategy Planning) is the methodology to light the objective and the business system architecture, and to recognize the strategic situation for the establishment of effective information system in an organization. Customer Needs Research is one of the Research Methodology that analyze the customer needs effectively and use to establish the policy and the direction of corporation. Both have the important role to establish the strategy for the corporation. The former can propose the corporate information strategy in MIS, the latter can be used to research the customer needs about a corporation, to establish the business management strategy and to decide the way corporate must head. But each has studied independently and there is no integrated methodology of ISP and Customer Needs Research. Actually, a lot of corporations still establish ISP to increase the business efficiency rather than to satisfy the customer needs. Customer satisfaction is the final objective of all business so that corporations have to find the customer needs through Customer Needs Research and make ISP oriented to customer satisfaction through the result of Customer Needs Research.

• 디자인학연구
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.63-72
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• 1999

사용자 니즈는 디자인 활동에서 매우 중요한 정보로서 활용된다. 그리고 이의 제품 디자인에서의 충실한 구현은 제품의 성공과도 밀접하게 연관되어 있다고 할 수 있다. 그러나 이러한 사용자 니즈는 일반적으로 마케터에 의해 수집되고, 그들의 언어로서 표현함으로써 디자이너는 이를 디자인 작업으로 신속하고 효율적으로 반영하는데 어려움을 갖게 되고, 따라서 이러한 니즈의 충실한 구현이 용이하게 이루어질 수 없게 된다. 본 연구는 바로 이러한 필요성에서 출발하게 된다. 즉, 본 연구에서는 효율적인 사용자 니즈 활용을 위한 가이드라인으로서 사용자 니즈의 디자인 정보 변환 프로세스를 개발하게 된다.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.25-43
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• 2015

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the information needs and information seeking behavior of foreign students. A survey method was used for the undertaken study. The data were collected using a structured questionnaire, self-administered to 120 foreign students (60 males & 60 females) with 88 (47 males & 41 females) returns. The research is limited to post-graduate, M.Phil. and Ph.D. foreign students in University of Delhi. It was found that post-graduate students need information regarding their program of study while research scholars need information for writing research articles and for doing their research work. Most of them seek information through the internet. Research scholars used electronic resources such as databases, e-journals and e-theses and dissertations. 88.6% of the respondents also use books for seeking information. Their use of the library is limited with complaints about library staff and too few computer terminals. The present study will be helpful in designing new systems and services for the foreign students so that their information needs can be fulfilled easily. Further, findings of the study indicate that how the library professionals should assist foreign students to accomplish their information needs.